Perspective: Dan Jenkins made tough writing look easy and made sentimentality look cranky
By Dave Kindred March 8 at 1:03 PM “It was a gray, drizzly day like most others in Scotland and there was I, a lonely shepherd . . .” “. . . strolling alone a swollen dune by the North Sea looking for a wee stane to hit wi’ a bit crook. Clumps of heather were up to my knees and the yellow-tipped whin was up to my chest, and I was up to here with my sheep because the little dumplings had wandered away.”“I had this crooked stick in my hand which I normally used to keep the dumplings in line.
Of course he did. Or, at least, he invented golf writing of the kind you’d want to read. I once called him “the greatest golf writer ever, living, dead, or Texan,” and he said, “Two out of those three, I like.” “Dan Jenkins, Dan Jenkins!” an ingénue of a sportswriter said upon meeting him. “I’ve always wanted to be just like you.”He could write symphonies. More often, he wrote little gems. He explained America and golf in 11 words: “Golf is a mental disorder like gambling or women or politics.”
Sally has said, with love, “My father is a fraud.” He made the hard work look too easy. He encouraged the idea that he was carefree. Legend that has hardened into fact insists that Dan has covered 68 Masters tournaments from the comfort of the clubhouse’s second-story veranda. As a result, it’s possible to believe the words wrote themselves.
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